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No evidence remained on the bodies of Alun Pitcher, a well-liked, wealthy, careful and cautious businessman, and his family after they'd been wrapped in brown paper and string, doused in petrol and ignited. The fires had destroyed any evidence, or so the pathologist and the local police believed. Defeated, the local force asks for outside help. Following success in solving a previous 'cold' case, Inspector Trevor Joseph and Sergeant Peter Collins are called in. Their superiors trust them to provide answers to the questions that have confounded the local force. Did the murderer or murderers possess knowledge of police procedure and criminal investigative methods that have resulted in the perfect, unsolvable crime? Why would anyone want to kill a well-liked family who have no known enemies? How did the murderer or murderers overcome three grown men and a woman without anyone seeing anything, or hearing a sound? And, most important of all, was all the evidence really destroyed?
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Katherine John is the daughter of a Prussian refugee mother and a Welsh father. She lives with her family on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea. She also writes under the name of Catrin Collier and is Wales best-selling novelist.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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You cannot help but enjoy Katherine John. From her first novel, I have followed her difficult progress and her enterprising solution to her initial novel being rejected. Her Welsh/Prussian uprbinging certainly stood her in good stead and, as I am Welsh, I am proud to recognise her as the top selling Welsh Crime Fiction novelist. She set up her own publishing company with her husband and they have gone from strength to strength, helping other struggling authors who need to be read.
This particular book is another one in the series of Detective Trevor Joseph. In this novel, he and his team are called in to help thelocal police. Faced with no evidence, after fires seemingly destroyed everything he had to work with, his task is not an easy one. The mystery of why someone would want to kill a local popular family and who had the knowledge of police procedure and evidential cover-up is confounding. Besides being incredibly well written, it is an excellent crime read. If you have not read any of Katherine John before,this is your chance to enjoy a first class mystery novel. I had to read it in one sitting and it was well worth the sleepless hours.The Destruction of Evidence (Trevor Joseph Detective Series)
This particular book is another one in the series of Detective Trevor Joseph. In this novel, he and his team are called in to help thelocal police. Faced with no evidence, after fires seemingly destroyed everything he had to work with, his task is not an easy one. The mystery of why someone would want to kill a local popular family and who had the knowledge of police procedure and evidential cover-up is confounding. Besides being incredibly well written, it is an excellent crime read. If you have not read any of Katherine John before,this is your chance to enjoy a first class mystery novel. I had to read it in one sitting and it was well worth the sleepless hours.The Destruction of Evidence (Trevor Joseph Detective Series)
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Destruction of evidence is a fast paced thriller that delivers. Katherine John combines genuinely surprising plot twists with emotionally engaging characters that stand out from the one dimensional cut outs of the archetypical cop novel. It will keep the reader hooked to the end!
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Having seen this book was one in a list of a series by a best selling novelist I thought I was on to a good thing. How wrong can you be? The writing was stilted and confusing at times, and so was the plot while the whole book felt dated. One point of confusion was the geography of the place, while another was the inspector talking about 'the locals' which in normal parlance means the local population, but in this case seemed to mean the local police force.
There was a lot of detail about things that didn't add to the plot, or matter at all, such as a police timeline which didn't read much like police speak to me, more an like an attempt to get the poor confused reader back on track. Another was the contents of someone's stationery drawer. Instead of just saying, if anything, that there was a drawer and it contained stationery, there was longish list of items, neither the drawer. Not that the drawer or any of the items in it had any relevance whatsoever to the plot, they just seemed to be there to bulk out the book and increase the word count, reminiscent of the tactics employed by students everywhere, although students don't usually get away with it.
Nonetheless, I carried on reading, and got a bit excited when it seemed one of the suspects had two passports. One that the uniformed police found in a drawer, and one that our esteemed inspector found a couple of pages later when he managed to open the safe. Presumably this was either an error, or another bit of help with the word count, confusing and totally pointless.
I read on to the end but rather wish I hadn't. All I can say is if this book turns out to be a best seller there is hope for us all.
There was a lot of detail about things that didn't add to the plot, or matter at all, such as a police timeline which didn't read much like police speak to me, more an like an attempt to get the poor confused reader back on track. Another was the contents of someone's stationery drawer. Instead of just saying, if anything, that there was a drawer and it contained stationery, there was longish list of items, neither the drawer. Not that the drawer or any of the items in it had any relevance whatsoever to the plot, they just seemed to be there to bulk out the book and increase the word count, reminiscent of the tactics employed by students everywhere, although students don't usually get away with it.
Nonetheless, I carried on reading, and got a bit excited when it seemed one of the suspects had two passports. One that the uniformed police found in a drawer, and one that our esteemed inspector found a couple of pages later when he managed to open the safe. Presumably this was either an error, or another bit of help with the word count, confusing and totally pointless.
I read on to the end but rather wish I hadn't. All I can say is if this book turns out to be a best seller there is hope for us all.
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